Download or read book Les privatisations en Afrique occidentale written by Hachimi Sanni Yaya and published by Presses Université Laval. This book was released on 2007 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le déclin de l'État-providence qui a confirmé l'échec de la planification centralisée, la crise des finances publiques ainsi que l'imposant déficit budgétaire accumulé par les États ont conduit les gouvernements de plusieurs pays en développement à limiter les prérogatives de l'État à quelques fonctions régaliennes (armée, police, diplomatie et justice) et à miser sur la dérégulation générale de l'économie et les gains générés par l'ouverture à la concurrence des marchés publics. Si les dernières décennies ont vu la place et le rôle de l'État passer de celui de producteur-régulateur à celui de catalyseur-partenaire, elles ont également consacré, particulièrement en Afrique occidentale, l'émergence d'arguments économiques de tendance libérale qui voient dans la privatisation une occasion unique de réduire non seulement le lourd fardeau financier et administratif qu'impose un secteur public déficient, mais aussi et surtout une façon de discipliner les entreprises, de stimuler le développement de l'initiative privée, de contribuer à la lutte contre la pauvreté et de recentrer les efforts de l'État dans les domaines économiques où sa présence est nécessaire. D'ailleurs, selon plusieurs auteurs, les vieilles approches classiques keynésiennes fondées sur l'interventionnisme étatique ne peuvent plus être soutenues, ne serait-ce qu'en raison des difficultés que connaissent les entreprises publiques en Afrique occidentale. Mais, près de deux décennies après l'intensification des pressions exercées par le Fonds monétaire internationale, la Banque mondiale et autres bailleurs de fonds en vue de libéraliser l'économie des pays sous-développés, et à la suite de l'abandon des sacro-saints principes d'intervention tutélaire de l'État en Afrique et l'adoption de vastes programmes de privatisation des entreprises publiques, sommes-nous aujourd'hui à même de porter un regard critique sur les effets présumés de cette politique économique en matière de performance microéconomique des firmes concernées ? Face aux résultats plutôt mitigés des privatisations comme formule simplifiée de la nouvelle politique économique des États ouest-africains, quelles autres perspectives s'offrent à eux? L'État en Afrique a-t-il encore un avenir ? Cet ouvrage propose un cadre d'analyse permettant d'apprécier les réalisations effectives des politiques économiques d'inspiration néolibérale en Afrique occidentale. Il offre en outre une occasion unique de réfléchir sur les nouveaux défis de la gouvernance publique en Afrique et permet de mieux comprendre les problèmes et les enjeux fondamentaux liés à l'émergence d'une nouvelle gestion publique. Les sujets abordés intéresseront non seulement les décideurs publics, mais également les gestionnaires, chercheurs et spécialistes du tiers-monde ainsi que les observateurs engagés.
Download or read book Privatisations en Afrique occidentale written by Hachimi Sanni Yaya and published by Presses de l'Université Laval. This book was released on 2017-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le déclin de l'Etat-providence qui a confirmé l'échec de la planification centralisée, la crise des finances publiques ainsi que l'imposant déficit budgétaire accumulé par les Etats ont conduit les gouvernements de plusieurs pays en développement à limiter les prérogatives de l'Etat à quelques fonctions régaliennes (armée, police, diplomatie et justice) et à miser sur la dérégulation générale de l'économie et les gains générés par l'ouverture à la concurrence des marchés publics. Si les dernières décennies ont vu la place et le rôle de l'Etat passer de celui de producteur-régulateur à celui de catalyseur-partenaire, elles ont également consacré, particulièrement en Afrique occidentale, l'émergence d'arguments économiques de tendance libérale qui voient dans la privatisation une occasion unique de réduire non seulement le lourd fardeau financier et administratif qu'impose un secteur public déficient, mais aussi et surtout une façon de discipliner les entreprises, de stimuler le développement de l'initiative privée, de contribuer à la lutte contre la pauvreté et de recentrer les efforts de l'Etat dans les domaines économiques où sa présence est nécessaire. D'ailleurs, selon plusieurs auteurs, les vieilles approches classiques keynésiennes fondées sur l'interventionnisme étatique ne peuvent plus être soutenues, ne serait-ce qu'en raison des difficultés que connaissent les entreprises publiques en Afrique occidentale. Mais, près de deux décennies après l'intensification des pressions exercées par le Fonds monétaire internationale, la Banque mondiale et autres bailleurs de fonds en vue de libéraliser l'économie des pays sous-développés, et à la suite de l'abandon des sacro-saints principes d'intervention tutélaire de l'Etat en Afrique et l'adoption de vastes programmes de privatisation des entreprises publiques, sommes-nous aujourd'hui à même de porter un regard critique sur les effets présumés de cette politique économique en matière de performance microéconomique des firmes concernées ? Face aux résultats plutôt mitigés des privatisations comme formule simplifiée de la nouvelle politique économique des Etats ouest-africains, quelles autres perspectives s'offrent à eux ? L'Etat en Afrique a-t-il encore un avenir ? Cet ouvrage propose un cadre d'analyse permettant d'apprécier les réalisations effectives des politiques économiques d'inspiration néolibérale en Afrique occidentale. Il offre en outre une occasion unique de réfléchir sur les nouveaux défis de la gouvernance publique en Afrique et permet de mieux comprendre les problèmes et les enjeux fondamentaux liés à l'émergence d'une nouvelle gestion publique. Les sujets abordés intéresseront non seulement les décideurs publics, mais également les gestionnaires, chercheurs et spécialistes du tiers-monde ainsi que les observateurs engagés.
Download or read book The Politics of Trade and Industrial Policy in Africa written by Charles Chukwuma Soludo and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the process and political economy of policy making in Africa. It's focus on trade and industrial policy makes it unique and it will appeal to students and academics in economics, political economy, political science and African studies. Detailed case studies help the reader to understand how the process and motivation behind policy decisions can vary from country to country depending on the form of government, ethnicity and nationality and other social factors.
Download or read book Mining in Africa written by Bonnie Campbell and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continent of Africa is rich in minerals needed by Western economies, but rather than forming the basis for economic growth the mining industry contributes very little to African development Investigating the impact of the 2003 Extractive Industries Review on a number of African countries, the contributors find the root of the problem in the controls imposed on the African countries by the IMF and World Bank. They aim to convince academics, governments and industry that regulation needs to be reformed to create a mining industry favourable towards social, economic and environmental development. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach and provides a historical perspective of each country, making it ideal for students of development studies and development organizations.
Download or read book Postcoloniality written by Margaret A. Majumdar and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial theory is one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which are rather sterile and characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. She explores the divergent responses to the debates on globalization.
Download or read book The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa written by Thomas J. Bassett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis and gloom. But Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa. One of the few long-running success stories in African development, change was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers. While the introduction of new strains of cotton in French West Africa was in part a result of agronomic research by French scientists, supported by an unusually efficient marketing structure, this is not a case of triumphant top-down 'planification'. Employing the case of Côte d'Ivoire, Professor Bassett shows agricultural intensification to result from the cumulative effect of decades of incremental changes in farming techniques and social organization. A significant contribution to the literature, the book demonstrates the need to consider the local and temporal dimensions of agricultural innovations. It brings into question many key assumptions that have influenced development policies during the twentieth century.
Download or read book The Roots of the Military political Crises in Cote D Ivoire written by Francis Augustin Akindès and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the coup d???etat of 24 December 1999 and the politico-military conflict that started on 19 September 2002, C??te d???Ivoire broke with its tradition of political stability, which had served as a model in the West African sub-region. It is now facing an unprecedented crisis that is not only jeopardizing the continuity of the state, but has also introduced a culture of violence into the society. This study has three objectives. The primary one is to understand the nature of this socio-political crisis, and what is at stake in it. Secondly, the study examines the issue of ivoirit??. Finally, it explores the escalation of violence in this socio-political crisis and the catalogue of justifications for that violence.It is argued that the recurrence of military coups d???etat in C??te d???Ivoire signifies the delegitimization of the modes of regulation built on the tontine system, and calls for a renewal of the political grammar and socio-political regulatory modalities around integrating principles that have yet to be devised.
Download or read book States at Work written by Thomas Bierschenk and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States at Work explores the mundane practices of state-making in Africa by focussing on the daily functioning of public services and the practices of civil servants.
Download or read book Accumulation in an African Periphery written by Issa G. Shivji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.
Download or read book Airline Privatisation in Europe written by Lucien Rapp and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Punished Peoples written by Aleksandr Moiseevich Nekrich and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1981-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 1943 and early 1944, after the Nazi invasion of Russia had been turned back, Soviet troops descended upon the Caucasus, the Caspian steppes, and the Crimea without warning and brutally deported some one million of their people--Chechens, Ingush, Balkars, Karachai, Kalmyks, and Tatars--to Central Asia, Kazakhstan, and Siberia. Hundreds were executed and thousands more were to die of malnutrition, exposure, and harsh treatment. Not until the late 1950s were some of them allowed to return to their homelands, but then, and even now, under a burden of lies and guilt for the treasonous acts of a few.
Download or read book Property and Political Order in Africa written by Catherine Boone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.
Download or read book Aanwinsten van de Centrale Bibliotheek Queteletfonds written by Bibliothèque centrale (Fonds Quetelet) and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel written by Gregory Mann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. It describes the ambitions of newly independent African states, their political experiments, and the challenges they faced. No other book places black American activism, Amnesty International, and CARE together in the history of African politics.
Download or read book Anthropology and Development written by Jean-Pierre Oliver De-Sardan and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology‘s principal area of study. Professor de Sardan argues for a socio-anthropology of change and development that is a deeply empirical, multidimensional, diachronic study of social groups and their interactions. The Introduction provides a thought-provoking examination of the principal new approaches that have emerged in the discipline during the 1990s. Part I then makes clear the complexity of social change and development, and the ways in which socio-anthropology can measure up to the challenge of this complexity. Part II looks more closely at some of the leading variables involved in the development process, including relations of production; the logics of social action; the nature of knowledge; forms of mediation; and ‘political‘ strategies.
Download or read book The Politics of Aid written by Lindsay Whitfield and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume examines negotiations between rich countries and African governments over what should happen with money given as aid. Describing the history of aid talks the volume presents eight studies of the strategies of negotiation tried by particular African countries.
